PPT-Dante’s Inferno Cantos

Canto 1 The Dark Wood of Error Read handout for Canto 1 lines 160 Answer the following question Dante says in line 12 of Canto 1 that he has wandered from the True Way If the Dark Wood of Error is a symbol of worldliness what does the True Way represent On an allegorical level what might the three animals that try to force Dante back into the Dark Wood represent. Inferno. Cantos. Canto 1: The Dark Wood of Error. Read handout for Canto 1 (lines 1-60). Answer the following question:. Dante says in line 12 of Canto 1 that he has wandered from the “True Way.” If the “Dark Wood of Error” is a symbol of worldliness, what does the True Way represent? On an allegorical level, what might the three animals that try to force Dante back into the Dark Wood represent?. CANTO 3: THE VESTIBULE OF HELL. The Opportunists. “Neither for good nor evil but only for themselves”. Uncommitted one way or another; never chose sides in Rebellion of Angels. Reside on shores of Acheron (not in Hell or outside of it). By Dante Alighieri. LIFE AND TIMES. Dante was born in 1265 in Florence. . At the age of 9 he met for the first time the eight-year-old . Beatrice . Portinari. , who became in effect his Muse. , and remained, after her death in 1290, the central inspiration for his major poems.. will be introduced to Dante's Inferno . Into to Dante!!. This is what we will be reading this week!!. Okay, kind of a stretch, but you will get the jest of it :) . https://. www.youtube.com/watch?v=SdqY2a9iRXw. By Robert Sobel. Have You Ever Wondered What Hell Looks Like?. Ordinary World. “Born . in 1265 to a family with a history of involvement in the complex Florentine political . scene*...”. “When . An exciting journey through . all the circles of Hell. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here. “Hell has enlarged its soul and opened its mouth without any limits.”. - Isaiah 5:14. Three Days in Hell. Summary. In canto III, Dante travels through the gate. What he sees overwhelms him. The sinners in this area are forever chasing a banner. They are being chased by hornets and wasps, and their blood feeds worms and maggots that live below. Virgil guides Dante to the river that leads further into the inferno. Charon denies Dante’s passage further into the inferno because he is a living man destined for a better place. Virgil tells Charon that Dante must make this journey. At the end of the canto, Dante faints.. 1. What do you think happens in Canto 6-33, if you know that Canto 5 was about Circle 2, and Canto 34 is about Circle 9? . 2. . What sin will put you in Circle 9, and who lives there?. 3. . What does “. The Opportunists. “Neither for good nor evil but only for themselves”. Uncommitted one way or another; never chose sides in Rebellion of Angels. Reside on shores of Acheron (not in Hell or outside of it). Class project for Dr.Hale’s World Literature Course - Fall 1999 by Barbara Christopher. How to stay out of Hell. “The Law of contradiction is a basic principle of Aristotelian logic: to repent of one’s sin and to want to commit it at the same time is a self-contradiction.”. The Virtuous Pagans. Once across the Acheron river, Dante perceives Hell to be in a funnel shape, with the bottom at the Earth’s center. Ledges follow the funnel to the bottom, and each of these ledges is referred to as a “circle.” As the funnel descends, the sins and punishments become more serious.. April, 23,2009. English 230. Assignment 3. . Cantos 7. The entrance of circle 4-The Avaricious and Prodigal. The Fourth Circle is one of just three in all the circles of Hell in which Dante recognizes no one, so deeply did he feel that a life of concern with getting and spending destroys the soul. What he does recognize is how many leaders of the Church are in this circle; no wonder the world goes wrong, he says later in Purgatory, if those who are supposed to guide us all to the bliss of union with God are themselves obsessed with material things.. cammin. di nostra vita. mi ritrovai per una selva oscura. ché la diritta via era . smarrita.. Ahi . quanto a dir qual era è cosa dura. esta. . selva selvaggia e aspra e forte. che nel . pensier. . ), . Heresy and Violence. Circles (2-7). OLLI: Dante’s . Inferno. Spring 2017. Kristina Olson. Another non-trivial item. The first literary reference for . pizza. appears in the context of the Harpies (which we see in .